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U.S. Job Creation Accelerates

This Year’s Gains Could Be Strongest Since 1999

December 7, 2014

U.S. employers ramped up hiring last month, continuing a stretch of robust payroll gains and keeping the economy on track to record its strongest year of job creation in 15 years.

Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 321,000 last month, the strongest month of hiring since January 2012, the Labor Department said. Hiring was broad across the economy, led by gains in the professional and business-services sector.